Edward Johnson

Edward "Allegheny" Johnson (16 April 1816-2 March 1873) was a Confederate States Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Edward Johnson was born in Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia in 1816 and raised in Kentucky, and he graduated from West Point in 1838. Johnson served in the US Army during the Second Seminole War, in the American West, and during the Mexican-American War before becoming a Brigadier-General in the American Civil War and earning the nickname "Allegheny" for his command of six regiments at the Battle of Camp Allegheny. Johnson was known to be a ladies' man at the age of 47, as an eye affliction acquired during the Mexican War led to many ladies thinking that he was winking and flirting with them. His army later cooperated with Stonewall Jackson during the 1862 Valley Campaign, and he was shot in the leg at the Battle of McDowell. In 1863, he was nicknamed "Old Clubby" for returning to battle with a hickory stick as a cane, and he led his division at the Battle of Gettysburg in July. His division suffered heavy losses during repeated attacks on Culp's Hill, and he was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on 12 May 1864. He was exchanged on 3 August 1864, and he was captured again while leading a division at the Battle of Nashville that December. He was paroled on 22 July 1865 and became a farmer in Virginia, and he died in 1873.